Helping You Help Your Business

At Thrive, we focus on your vision and the specific needs of your business or institution, bringing a fresh design sensibility that integrates your brand with functional solutions to the challenges you face every day.

We understand the evolving contemporary workplace and bring you dynamic places for seamless collaboration balanced with quiet spaces that enable privacy, concentration, and focus. What’s in it for you? Efficient workflow. And happy employees!

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Helping You Help Your Business

At Thrive, we focus on your vision and the specific needs of your business or institution, bringing a fresh design sensibility that integrates your brand with functional solutions to the challenges you face every day.

We understand the evolving contemporary workplace and bring you dynamic places for seamless collaboration balanced with quiet spaces that enable privacy, concentration, and focus. What’s in it for you? Efficient workflow. And happy employees!

CAT Operations Center

CAT Operations Center

Charlottesville Area Transit Operations Center

City of Charlottesville

The Southwest Mountains rise behind the CAT Operations Center

Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects

Operations staff offices enjoy views to the biofilters that treat stormwater from the vehicle parking area.

Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects

Located in the Monticello viewshed, the project integrates rich red brick with an industrial material palette.

Image Courtesy of Scott Smith Photography and VMDO Architects

East-facing windows in the Maintenance Building are well-shaded from the morning sun.

A Green Depot

The LEED Gold-certified facility features rainwater harvesting, graywater re-use, and stormwater infiltration strategies that emphasize the critical need for water conservation.

The facility also utilizes a first-in-Virginia standing column well ground-source heat pump design that has helped the city reduce the facility’s energy use significantly compared to the smaller but more inefficient building the division previously occupied.

With the interior lights off, the storefront reflect the beauty of the adjacent forest.

Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects

Daylighting fills the interior of the chiller room.

Image Courtesy of Virginia Hamrick and VMDO Architects

A cut-away perspective illustrates the relationship of structure, wall openings, and screen.

Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects

A Hidden Gem

UVa’s Massie Road Plant, located behind John Paul Jones Arena, will serve the heating and cooling needs for much of the projected build-out of the athletic precinct and North Grounds.

This machine-in-the-garden is conceived as a simple container, with mechanical openings piercing the container as needed. A playfully detailed mechanical screen wraps the upper portion of the “container” concealing nearly all of the various intakes and exhaust. An artful logic establishes the pattern of slats in the louvered mechanical screen, sometimes concealing and sometimes revealing the nature of the surface behind the screen.

295 Massie Road

Somewhat Walkable

Project Facts

11,000 GSF

$6,000,000

Completed June 2006.

Energy Use: Not available

Awards and Recognition

Merit Award for Excellence, Virginia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

Harrisonburg Transit Operations Center

Harrisonburg Transit Operations Center

Transit Operations Center

City of Harrisonburg

Abundant windows provide plentiful daylight to the interior, while meadow-like landscaping harmonizes with the adjacent rural area character.

Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects

The redevelopment project would have relocated the transit operations center from a crowded hilltop site on the eastern edge of the city to a larger, flatter site on the northern edge of town.

Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects

The admin build effectively separates public areas and employee parking from the operations and vehicle storage areas

Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects

The new buildings are configured to preserve the existing tree canopy.

Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects

The naturally-lit bus maintenance facility needs no artificial light during daytime work shifts.

Image Courtesy of VMDO Architects

Shenandoah Valley Goes Green

The City of Harrisonburg planned to develop a transit operations center for its growing bus fleet. This design-build proposal was located and conceived to reduce operational travel miles and increase the efficiency of the cleaning, fueling and maintenance regimes. The site plan was arranged to incorporate and extend a planned city bike trail and to restore a degraded stream and wildlife corridor along the site’s eastern edge.

The project consisted of four buildings arrayed around the primary bus parking lot. The office building is situated in a native-planted meadow-scape that would promote on-site biodiversity and provide visual continuity with the agrarian Shenandoah Valley landscape.